Lake Michigan Water Pumping Station

Please note that some or all of the objects mentioned in this post are no longer visible on Google Earth or Google Maps.

A couple of readers pointed out a cool-looking pumping station (in the thumbnail) and another not-so-cool one, both in Lake Michigan. Presumably they are both involved in pumping water towards the nearby city of Chicago; Lake Michigan is the largest freshwater lake in the US and supplies the drinking water for some 10 million people.

Everyone is aware of how the maps changed a week or 2 ago (the local bar on the left instead of right and tighter integration with local search). But I just noticed this. Now it may be old news to some, but I was suprised when I saw it. If you search for an exact address or location (ie city and state) then the map now takes up the entire lower portion of the screen! No more bar on either the left or right side!

As for the plane, the odds do seem low. And it looks kinda like the same plane. And it’s a weird shape for something that small – it has the silhouette of a passenger get, but the cribs are only the size of a big house; for instance, the bridge between the intakes (the round part) and the artificial island (the hexagonal part) is only a single-person catwalk. And, if you look at the third crib (above) there’s a dot next to it – another plane?!

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